Journal

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Feed Somebody is more than a slogan, it is a way of seeing. During the Christmas season last month somewhere along US 95, I pulled into a grocery store parking lot to drop off a few cans for the local food pantry that I had heard about on my local radio … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Finding common ground used to feel simple. A handshake. A neighborly wave. A shared laugh over burnt toast in a diner booth. These days it feels like every conversation carries a fuse. Even the quiet places, the ones where people once came to escape the noise, now have televisions shouting from … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The strength to endure a difficult life is not something most of us ask for when we bow our heads the first time. We usually pray for relief, for answers, for the road to smooth out and the ache to ease. I know I have. I have asked God more than … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Rule 66 never began as a campaign or a slogan. It began with my mother. Her lessons came from an ordinary kitchen that always smelled of percolated coffee that she ground with a bright red hand cranked grinder. That space became my first classroom. I learned more about life … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Love came quietly that night without fanfare or bright lights. Just the steady rhythm of animals breathing, the scrape of straw, and a cry that split the silence of the world. God entered the story, not through a throne or a trumpet, but through a manger that smelled of … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Sharing your story of faith rarely feels grand while you are doing it. Most of the time it sounds like refilled coffee and a quiet voice, a table at dusk, the soft clink of a spoon, a truth that finally finds words. I have learned on Route 66 that … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Grace on the move isn’t a sprint toward recovery. It’s the quiet drive home after the storm, when the sky is still heavy, but the light begins to show through. This reflection is part two of the three-part series called “Living the Mission Statement”; stories about what it means … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Faith in motion begins in the quiet before dawn when the world feels half asleep and the road waits without answers. This reflection is part one of a three-part series called “Living the Mission Statement”; three stories about what it means to live “God handed me the keys again … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Pie for Strangers is a Route 66 Thanksgiving story about kindness, gratitude, and sharing dessert when thanksgiving dinner on the road brought forty travelers together in a Flagstaff café. The smell of turkey and coffee met us at the door when Mary and I stepped into a small café … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast The Mission Statement was born, like most good things, over coffee. I was halfway through a lukewarm refill when a businessman at the next stool looked up from his laptop and asked what I did for a living. I told him I was a chaplain, … Read more